Hi again Arthur, Just found your Jan. 22 post, also. Another good question raised, I think. Any updates?
Steve CSM On Jan 22, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Arthur Emerson III <[email protected]> wrote: > We are just wrapping up our spring semester move-in rush, > and have registered about 2,500 new devices in the past > few days on a brand new PF 3.6.1 deployment. Everything > has worked flawlessly. > > The only gotcha that we have encountered so far is with > PF's new gaming console self-registration system and > wired ports. We are using Cisco 2960 switches in the > dorms, configured for port-security traps to PF. If > a student plugs their gaming console into the switch, > PF assigns it to the registration VLAN like it should. > Then, as an asynchronous process, they go to another > computer and register the MAC address with PF via the > new gaming adapter self-registration web page. The > gaming console routine apparently does not send any > notification to the switch port like the traditional > registration routine does, and the gaming device is > stuck on the registration VLAN until either another > MAC address is plugged into that port or I mark the > gaming device as un-registered and then registered > again. It makes total sense from the switch's perspective, > since it shouldn't send a trap since the MAC address > never changed. > > Long story short, I'm not sure if I should report this > as a bug, try to fix it myself with a kludge to the code, > or if we should have set the switches up differently to > handle this scenario? > > I'm far from a qualified Perl programmer, but do see > a call to "register_node" in /usr/local/pf/html/captive-portal/\ > register-gaming-device.cgi and suspect that a few > additional lines to make it de-auth and re-auth the > newly-registered gaming device would solve my problem > without having to change the switches. Is there a > reason why this can't (or shouldn't) be done on the gaming > console self-registration system web page??? > > -Arthur > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Arthur Emerson III Email: [email protected] > Network Administrator InterNIC: AE81 > Mount Saint Mary College MaBell: (845) 561-0800 Ext. 3109 > 330 Powell Ave. Fax: (845) 562-6762 > Newburgh, NY 12550 SneakerNet: Aquinas Hall Room 11 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, > MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current > with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft > MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > PacketFence-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
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